I hate Parents' Weekend soooooo much. Tempted to flee home to MY parents to escape it. Sigh.

But I did work 11 hours between yesterday and today. $$ for new laptop, yays!

ETA: in other news, I've been watching stuff in raw Japanese and understanding it. BOOYAH LANGUAGE CLASSES FINALLY PAY OFF.

Current Mood: frustrated

My computer is the world's biggest brat!

It knows I'm replacing it in two weeks, it KNOWS, because it's had so many problems since I ordered my new computer. The fan was making the strangest noise, and I had to call Dell tech support TWO DAYS AGO, and then today, while I was working, the hatch that holds the moniter on just snapped open and now is pulling up part of the plastic covering by the keyboard.

GREAT.

Computer: PAY ATTENTION TO ME, PAY ATTENTION TO ME
Me: JUST SURVIVE TWO MORE WEEKS. PLEASE.
Computer: HA! Foiled!

So now Dell tech support's going to have to get ANOTHER call from me, because Dennis (computer center boss) says that the plastic getting pulled up COULD snap the wires that attach to the moniter, and then I'd have to get an external moniter and wait for Dell to effing fix it. This is riduculous. This computer is a DUMP.

I'm so angry. Dell is nothing but trouble.

But you know, $800 for 120 GB hd, 1GB ram, a widescreen True Life moniter, and a DVD-burner, along with everything else that normally comes with the computer, is really worth it. Hopefully this new computer won't come with the WIDE ARRAY of technical problems that this assy one has. I know Dells give people a lot of trouble, but not THIS MUCH. So. Yeah.

Current Mood: annoyed

Tentative long weekend plans have been formed!

I am going to see Lisa in RI! It is going to be way fun, and I am so excited :D

Current Mood: excited

Kate's Adventures in New York City continue in this stunning tale of bravery and wit!

KATE: *is mean to Lauren a lot*
LAUREN: *is mean back*

KATE AND LAUREN: *go to Kinokuniya and sneer at the fangirls*

KATE AND LAUREN: *eat lots of asian food*

KATE: not fair! I want a Japanese grocery store two minutes away from MY dorm!
LAUREN: haha

KATE: ha, these dorms are not as nice as ours.
LAUREN: shut up.

KATE AND LAUREN: *watch lots of TV and generally do nothing productive*

NYC: *is fun*



In other news, this term has been so calm and peaceful. It's such a nice change. I'm just so content. Today I listened to my music as I walked down from Jennings and I thought, "finally."

I don't know what it is that finally happened, but maybe it's just that I'm finally sane.

Also, Ken, I hope zeppelins don't fall out of the sky this time, either.

EDIT: it would really help if I could spell

Current Mood: peaceful

Off to NYC to see Lauren!

See you all on Sunday/Monday!

Much love ♥♥♥

Current Mood: bouncy

AW SHIT I am getting ill!! I should have known I couldn't avoid the germs forever T_T

And I'm going to NYC this weekend! ARRGH.

And the Japanese homework that I avoided ALL WEEKEND LONG is still undone. I did half of it earlier today, but right now my head aches and I'm dizzy as all hell, and damn, but we've got class TOMORROW at 10:15. SHIT SHIT SHIT. Perhaps I should call in ill, since I a) am, and b) that gives me time to complete the assignment when I'm not feeling like death.

I have to work tomorrow at 7:30 and I think it's too late to track down a replacement. It's not like work is incredibly strenuous though, so I'll probably go and call in sick to Japanese and then go home and die. (okay not literally).

AND I NEED TO START LOOKING FOR AN FWT JOB AND WRITE MY PLAN ESSAY. What is this bullshit, I just want to get out of this school T.T I'm so frustrated with eeeeeeeeverything (except my classes, they all kick ass. But that's mostly luck.)

>.> bennington college, why is someone drumming outside at 11:15pm. I keep thinking it's like the power outage last term when everybody ended up doing primeval drum banging in dewey, except the lights are still on and hallo there, internet.

Current Mood: sick

OH MY EFFING GOD, WHY HAVE I NOT STARTED THE JAPANESE HOMEWORK YET.

*SHOOTS SELF IN THE FOOT*

An Open Letter To Bennington College:
why.
on.
earth.
did my internet stop working.
thank god I have another jack in my room, or I wouldn't have internet at all.
I pay $45,000+ to go here, I expect my room to be in decent shape.
BLAH.

An Open Letter To Several Freshmen In My Global Change Class:
you guys are in college now.
get used to it.

An Open Letter To My Japanese Homework:
I hate you.

An Open Letter To My (Revised) Plan Essay:
AAAAAAAAAAARGH.

Current Mood: stressed

Heke and I drove to the Cheesecake Factory this afternoon and this chocolate mousse cheesecake I got is pretty much making my day.

I GO TO NYC TO SEE LAUREN IN A WEEK

Now back to the mountain of reading and Japanese that I have to do this weekend. Blargh.

Current Mood: happy

It's a beautiful day. The sky was endless walking up to Jennings, the air is perfect, my life finally vaguely resembles sanity, and I don't need a prince.

What else could I want from the world?

ETA: Ken wants me to say "KNOCK ON WOOD" because apparently he thinks now that I'm happy, zeppelins will fall out of the sky or something.

[16:21] Ken: I'd never reply to your post with this, but posts as happy and awesome as yours are like, INVITATIONS FOR ZEPPELINS TO START CRASHING OUT OF THE SKY AND ONTO YOUR HEAD.

>.>

Current Mood: peaceful

My schedule for this term is so effing insane BUT IT IS SO AWESOME ALL THE SAME! I am so excited! My Mondays-Wednesdays-Thursdays are CRAZY and I'm going ALL DAY LONG but then Tuesdays, Fridays, and weekends I'm pretty chill, which rocks.

This weekend was amazing, Saturday night I had a party in my room, which was awesome, and then we went to Canfield which was kind of terrifying (wtf freshmen, I do not want to be shoved by you 92385235 times) so Amelia and I left early :D. It's both Nadine and Mollie's last terms here, so we're going to have to hang out a lot :( (and it might be mine too!)

I got into Kerry Woods' Global Change class which took a lot of being bratty and stubborn (actually, that's kind of how I got my job, too XD) and I'm pretty much just achieving everything I set out to accomplish so far this term, which is just SO AWESOME. This weekend I am going to call SUNY Geneseo back and set up a date to go interview, call SUNY Potsdam and set up a date to tour/interview, request my transcripts, and the weekend AFTER I'm going to NYC to see Lauren!

This term is going to rock so much. But even though I'm feeling totally positive about Bennington right now, I still want to transfer. Yay, conviction!

Maybe my bad luck of the summer was totally worth it!!!

GOTTA GO, I HAVE ADVANCED VOICE NOW. WHICH IS ALSO AWESOME.

Current Mood: bouncy

I GOT A JOB!

Today the computer center, tomorrow the WORLD.

Current Mood: amused

THIS SCHOOL IS OVERRUN BY PEOPLE I DON'T RECOGNIZE AND IT'S WEIRD.

I need to meet freshmen.

Current Mood: confused

I'm trying to transfer files to my server to back up like I do every couple of days and BENNINGTON INTERNET WON'T LET ME CONNECT.

WHAT THE SHIT.

Also, it won't load YouTube videos. what is going ON.

Why can't this place have like, decent internet EVER? Is it too much to ask that we be up to date?

God I need to get OUT :(

ALSO: wtf is up with facebook and why did it suddenly decided to be creepy?


ETA: it's letting me upload now. all is well. guess it burped? (oh, Bennington)

Current Mood: annoyed as shit

I'm back from Lisa's and it was SO MUCH FUN whee. And then Jenika flies in on Friday, which is going to be way fun too! And hopefully I'll get to see Velibor and Mike before I go back to school, I don't know though. And Erin! I gotta call Erin!

Monday I return to Bennington. Oh yeah, this is going to be great.

Damage appraisal for car today :( I think it's going to be something like $1500+ and it makes me WEEP. I am such a bad daughter. I really need to drop out of my $45,000 a year college just to start paying for the damages from all this shit luck I've had this summer but my mom won't listen to me when I say that. Do you KNOW how many cars I could buy with my tuition? BLAH. SUNY system, you are looking better and better. (PLUS APARTMENT, WHEE)

Now if only I can find time out of my schedule to go up and tour SUNY Potsdam and SUNY Canton, and look into the other schools in the state. Stupid going back to school. Stupid Bennington. Stupid life.

Brooke is back from Europe on Friday though, and then I go visit her in DECEMBER WHEE it cannot come fast enough (it'll also mean that this fuckin term, which hasn't even started yet, is already over) (and why doesn't Bennington have any other classes that I want to take this term. do you think I could get away with 14 credits since I'm getting the fuck out? what do I do about my plan? do I tell them I'm not graduating so I shouldn't have to revise it? what about FWT?)

GHAGSDLKGJSLDG so much to think about. *makes appointment with Laurie Kobik*

Maybe I'll drop out for spring term and just take community college courses and work. I'll get my gen ed requirements (something I can't really fulfill at Bennington, since according to the guy at Geneseo I'll really need to follow a basic college-level structure and Bennington doesn't have that anyway) and then get into one of the other SUNY schools easily from there. It's got to work! Doesn't it?

Life is so confusing but in seven years when I'm getting my masters or my phd in paleoanthropology I will look back on these years and be like "feh, I made it!", so it will be beautiful. Plus, I'll be a hot scientist. How is that not AWESOME.

I'm rambly today, so it's time to go!

Current Mood: refreshed

I adore Lisa and I'm really mad that she's not returning to Bennington.

But while I was trying to parallel park in front of her house, I backed up right into her neighbor's truck. My tail light is completely poked out, and there's a bit of denting around it, too. The damage isn't so bad, but how on earth am I having such horrible luck with everything this summer? I thought it was finally done and then it slapped me with more. Luckily the other guy didn't have very much damage at all (just a cracked light case) and so we're going to have to pay more for mine than his. And...yeah. Insurance is going to be a bitch :(

Why am I such a failure at life.

Current Mood: annoyed

Several things:

I. hard drive is making odd noises again. By odd noises, I mean the same mechanical grinding noises it was making a month before my last one died. So I am really Unhappy with Dell in particular and just technology in general. Um. Again.

II. my tan is already fading, wtf :(

III. I leave for Lisa's today until Tuesday!!! I probably won't be online at all, so don't let the internets implode while I'm gone, everyone <3

Let's hope being turned off for four days will do my computer a world of good >.> when I get back I'm going to call Dell and see what I can do. I ran some diagnostics and it was like "nothing's wrong! <3" but then last night my computer just stopped. going. like three times. and I keep getting all these ridiculous system errors. So my computer must have gotten damaged while we were flying, and that's just great x_o. Luckily everything on this hd has been backed up for ages since last time, so if it does die, it'll be a pain in the ass but there will be no data loss :O.

Current Mood: excited, yet frustrated with comp

So the first three days of our vacation here were amazing, but the last two days have been slightly sketchy. Around the third day, we noticed everyone on the beach was coughing a lot. There's been some thunder so we've done a lot of island exploring, but it's really not the same as just parking out on the beach for hours :-/.

Yesterday my mom talked to the lady in the gift shop and she told her that right now Florida's experiencing a phenomenon called red tide where essentially algae blooms make the water cloudy, kill a lot of fish, and make it hard to breathe the air. Fun, right?

So last night I went for a walk on the beach and there were dead fish everywhere. It was pretty disgusting and I was very disappointed, but I could still swim in the pool so it was okay. The problem with the pool has been that there are 8239082366 kids staying here and they have 28036826263 floats and the pool here just isn't that big. I've been avoiding it like the plague during the day and doing laps at night, but now I can't really avoid it if I want to swim because there are still disgusting dead fish washing up on the beach today, and it smells awful and no one is out there.

Regardless of nature's way of saying "fuck you!", this vacation has been a blast. I've really enjoyed myself and it was great to be at the ocean and swim and stuff. And now we definitely need to come back, because the Gulf waters are supposed to be lovely when the red tide isn't in, and if we come back in a year I'll be 21 and able to drink exotic cocktails by the pool. Yay! (Also, my parents said Brooke or someone could come along, which is pretty AMAZING :3)

So yes, we leave for the airport at 4pm this afternoon, and it's a cloudy day with a chance of yuck, so although our vacation bummed out and let me down, at least I a) have a tan, b) got to swim, and c) got to be in a beautiful place for a few days. Yay!

Current Mood: content

THE BEACH IS WONDERFUL!!!

PS: I got a tan :D

Current Mood: ecstatic

Tomorrow at this time I should be ALMOST TO A BEACH. And while I am nervous about flying due to all the rigamarole that's been going on lately, I am bringing lots of things to do on the plane (like studying my friggin Japanese. I'll get back to Bennington and speak semi-okay Japanese and sensei won't know what to do with herself. It'll be beautiful) and no liquids, so I think things should be okay? But disgustingly enough, we leave at 6am tomorrow morning, so I'm just going to stay up all night :D

My plastic ipod cover got scrunched and now has a weird tint to it. It's hard to read the screen through. *has such bad luck with ipods* Speaking of technology still being against me, I really wish my computer would stop feeling like a small space heater all the time. I really feel like this blew out my last hd, and am seriously Annoyed with it. Stupid Dells. My parents' computers are ovens too, but they don't use theirs as much. Also, the day before yesterday our router decided to die, but the cable company is stupid and said that our house wasn't getting a signal. So yesterday they came over, took one look at the router, and were like, "oh hey, your router's dead".

Lame. And they gave us this new one, but now pages aren't loading half the time and it's like I'm not getting a connection, and I've been actually disconnected about four times since yesterday. Parents have noticed it too, though, but are giving me solutions like "well, why don't we unplug it for awhile and see if it works afterwards?" Face it - the cable company gave us a shitty router. Why is that so hard to understand?

(Don't even get me started on the fact that we've had two new routers since we started with this company and they've ALL BEEN DIFFERENT BRANDS. I mean, what?!)

But BEACH TOMORROW. Yay!

*goes back to bed*

Current Mood: tired